BlackRock for the first time signaled it may oppose U.S. board members’ re-election over such issues as excessive tenure, poor short-term attendance and corporate bylaw changes that ignore investor rights.

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman -- who pocketed about $690 million last year -- said it’s unfair to compare his payout, largely from dividends from the company he co-founded, to that of bank chiefs or other hired CEOs. What will he do with all that money? That’s “an interesting existential question,” he said at a Wall Street Journal event Tuesday.

Does Apple Inc. have the Midas touch? The world’s most valuable company plans to make an 18-karat gold encased version of its new watch, called the Apple Watch Edition. That could potentially be a game-changer for gold.

Once a year, some of the top minds in the secretive world of quantitative investing get together for a casual but intensely competitive math competition. Hosted by the Museum of Math, the Masters Tournament is both a fund-raising event and the closet thing the “quants” have to a brain showdown.

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